Director
Shirley Clarke
Starring
Warren Finnerty, Garry Goodrow, Jerome Raphael, James Anderson
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Certificate
18
Run Time
110 mins
Release Year
1962
Country of Origin
USA
Language
English
Director of Photography: Arthur J. Ornitz
Editor: Shirley Clarke
Produced by: Lewis Allen, Shirley Clarke
Music: Freddie Redd
Screenplay by: Jack Gelber
Production Designer: Richard Sylbert
The Connection
Part of the Retrospective: The Future Is History Strand
In 1996, to mark the publication of his new book Birdcalls, and as part of that year’s Centenary of Cinema in Scotland celebrations, Filmhouse, in conjunction with The Shore Poets, invited McGrath to perform a reading of his work at a special screening of a film of his choice. That film was The Connection. Shirley Clarke’s astonishing debut feature clearly reflects a key era in McGrath’s life, and helps us now to further illustrate the vast dimensions of his cultural experience and understanding.